The word peace has fallen out of use in today's political discourse, giving way to the much narrower "security." But presented with greater ambition, peace can be regarded as the supreme human right and the harmonious condition that underpins everything else in a healthy world.
In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. declared, "So we must fix our vision not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but upon the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody that is far superior to the discords of war."
In our @CarnegieEndow collection of essays Think Peace we discuss "international peace" a century after the Versailles Treaty of 1919 and Andrew Carnegie's death. In 2019 three broad modern trends undermine peace:
1. Inter-state wars are now at a historic low, but Great Power projection and contestation that the Versailles leaders would recognize is back. See behaviour of India re Kashmir, Brazil and Amazon, China and Uyghurs, Trump and Putin everywhere.
2. Non-state actors, from drug-barons to warlords to terrorists to cyber-hackers, are now moving most conflicts--although the good news is that there is now also a global civil war pushing back against them.
3. Technology is the great modern equalizer, both for positive change, but also giving unprecedented powers to a hacker in a dark room with a laptop. Managing its uses is the great 21st century challenge.
Read the seven essays here! carnegieeurope.eu/2019/10/14/thi…
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